Erdogan announced the news at a press conference late Friday night, according to Reuters and AFP news agencies. This will be the first time Putin visits Turkey since the invasion of Ukraine 500 days ago. Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey in August, according to Erdogan. Photo: Alexander Kazakov / AP The announcement from the Turkish president came during a press conference together with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. At the meeting between the two presidents, Erdogan is said to have also discussed a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine with Zelenskyi. – Deserves NATO membership – Ukraine undoubtedly deserves NATO membership, Erdogan said at a meeting with the Ukrainian president. But US President Joe Biden is crushing Ukraine’s hopes of quickly becoming a member of NATO. – I don’t think there is unanimity in NATO whether Ukraine should be allowed to become a member of the NATO family now, in the middle of a war, Biden said on Friday in an interview with CNN shortly before the NATO summit in Vilnius. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Turkish President Recep Erdogan. Photo: Francisco Seco / AP Will extend the grain agreement Erdogan also said that Ankara will work to extend the grain agreement in the Black Sea, which expires on July 17. The agreement enables Ukraine to export grain. – We are working on how to extend the agreement after 17 July. We will also try to increase the duration of the agreement to one to two years, Erdogan said.
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